Course : Managers: improving your interpersonal skills

Managers: improving your interpersonal skills




This course will allow managers to identify and develop the interpersonal skills that will be most useful in their day-to-day work. They will get to know one other better and challenge each other in order to integrate the emotional dimension into their relationship and create a performance-friendly environment.


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This course will allow managers to identify and develop the interpersonal skills that will be most useful in their day-to-day work. They will get to know one other better and challenge each other in order to integrate the emotional dimension into their relationship and create a performance-friendly environment.


Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Identify your interpersonal style
Develop your ability to listen and express yourself
Communicate your feelings using the DESC tool
Adopt individual coaching practices in your management

Intended audience
Managers and team leaders.

Prerequisites
Management experience required.

Practical details
Hands-on work
Self-diagnosis with individualised analysis, case studies, role play, scenarios and feedback discussions.

Course schedule

1
Understanding the challenges of interpersonal management

  • Position the status of the employee-company relationship.
  • Reconcile the personal needs of employees and the expectations of the company.
  • Define the manager’s role in creating a climate that is conducive to performance.
Case study
The manager’s role.

2
Taking stock of your interpersonal skills

  • Improve your understanding of your interpersonal style.
  • Self-affirmation, self-states and mental preferences.
  • Recognise and defuse reactive behaviours.
  • Thwart high-risk situations: the dramatic triangle.
Exercise
Interpersonal self-diagnosis and identification of one’s own obstacles in the relationship. Analyses of real-life situations.

3
Developing authentic communication

  • Learn about natural listening filters and the factors that contribute to them.
  • Differentiate between facts, opinions and feelings.
  • Improve your listening skills through questions and rephrasing.
  • Communicate without using words.
  • Non-verbal communication, calibration and synchronisation.
Exercise
Self-assessment of one’s own spontaneous listening attitudes. Training on precise questioning.

4
Leveraging emotions

  • Integrate the emotional process.
  • Learn to recognise and manage your emotions.
  • Express negative emotions appropriately.
  • DESC and Nonviolent Communication.
Exercise
Emotional quotient self-diagnosis. Role-playing game to practice communicating emotions without jeopardising the relationship.

5
Coaching employees to help them improve their skills

  • Recognise appropriate situations and positioning.
  • Learn coaching techniques.
  • Initiate and adhere to individual coaching.
Demonstration
Coaching interview simulation.

6
Improving your interpersonal skills in a management situation

  • Create and share a vision that can bring people together.
  • Conduct face-to-face interviews.
  • Lead and manage a meeting.
  • Support change.
  • Defuse sensitive or contentious situations.
Role-playing
Role-playing exercises for the various interviews. Role play based on a tense situation.


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Dates and locations

From 16 to 18 June 2025 *
FR
Remote class
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From 22 to 24 September 2025
FR
Remote class
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From 15 to 17 December 2025
FR
Remote class
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